Новости за 03.08.2016

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Although having a million bucks isn’t as impressive as it once was, it’s still nothing to sneeze at.

In fact, CNBC reports that in 2013 there were 13.2 million millionaires in the United States alone.

Heck, one of them might even be your neighbor. In fact, the odds are very good that it is your neighbor.

But, Len, you don’t know my neighbor. That guy doesn’t look anything like a millionaire.

Well, guess what? A millionaire who... Читать дальше...

CNBC's Jackie DeAngelis discusses the day's activity in the commodities markets.

"Pop-Tart appetizers to hold us over 'till the pizza comes. And one apple." It's just one simple photo on the Gilmore Girls official Instagram account, but it's got...

'When you start finding headless animals then things get a little bit serious.'

Lancashire Thunder edge to victory in the Super League with a six-run win over Loughborough Lightning in the final over.

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Twitter stock is up nearly 9% in midday trading on Wednesday on market chatter of a potential acquisition.

The rumored buyers: former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Saudi Arabia's Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal.

But according to SunTrust analyst Robert Peck, the chatter is just a rumor and a deal is unlikely to happen.

"We think it is extremely unlikely that Twitter would want to sell currently," Peck wrote in a note to investors on Wednesday.

Peck... Читать дальше...

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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian government forces launched air strikes against six hospitals in the Aleppo area within a week in attacks that amounted to war crimes, a U.S.-based rights group said on Wednesday.

Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) said it was the worst week for attacks on medical facilities in the Aleppo region since the beginning of Syria's five-year conflict, which has killed more than 250,000 people.

The medical facilities were hit between July 23 and 31, the New York-based group said.

Nearly one out of every 100 people are displaced from their homes worldwide, a record share of the global population, a Pew Research Center (PRC) report said on Wednesday.

When we think of athletes and the Olympics, Big Macs aren’t exactly what comes to mind, but McDonald’s Australia is (sorta) changing that with their latest clothing line.

When we think of athletes and the Olympics, Big Macs aren’t exactly what comes to mind, but McDonald’s Australia is (sorta) changing that with their latest clothing line.

RIO DE JANEIRO - In a nod to the popularity of baseball in Japan, the International Olympic Committee unanimously vot...

On Tuesday, August 9, there's a primary for the seat held by Paul Ryan, the House Speaker. It's in the news -- Ryan is being challenged in the Republican primary by a hitherto little-known businessman, Paul Nehlen. There's also a contested primary on the Democratic side. On Tuesday, Donald Trump pointedly refused to endorse Ryan, which doesn't necessarily reflect any Ryan weakness in the district (more like Trump and Ryan's irreconcilable differences.) But Ryan was vulnerable before, and he's more vulnerable now. Читать дальше...

This was bound to happen to someone. It was only a matter of time. Japanese gymnast Kohei Uchimura, who is set to compete at the Olympics in Rio this year, got smacked with a phone bill just under...

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BERLIN (Reuters) - Most Germans do not blame the government's expansive refugee policy for two Islamist attacks last month, an opinion poll showed on Wednesday.

But police report that violence against refugee centres remains widespread, suggesting the arrival of large numbers of migrants - 1.1 million of whom reached Germany last year - has done nothing to ease social tensions.

The poll by Forsa, to be published in Thursday's Stern magazine, showed 69 percent of respondents... Читать дальше...

Legendary Bay Area rapper E-40 and Long Beach hero Warren G have just been added to the Outside Lands Music Festival lineup for 2016.

LONDON — World heavyweight boxing champion Tyson Fury was provisionally suspended in June after testing positive for a banned substance, Britain’s anti-doping body said Wednesday. However, UKAD said in a statement that Fury and his cousin Hughie, a heavyweight boxer who was also suspended, have had their bans lifted “pending full determination of the charges.”

WASHINGTON — The federal government for the first time has given permission to a private Florida company to fly a spaceship beyond Earth’s orbit and land on the moon. The Federal Aviation Administration gave clearance Wednesday to Moon Express to land a washing machine-sized vehicle on the moon that would take hops across the lunar

CNBC's Bob Pisani discusses today's market activity.

– Pep Guardiola signs new Brazilian sensation Gabriel Jesus from Palmeiras – Gabriel becomes the fifth player coming to the Etihad this summer – The teenager will not be with Manchester City until the end of December Manchester City coach Pep Guardiola has completed the signing of Brazilian wonder kid Gabriel Jesus from Palmeiras for […]

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Because much of the cost of hosting an Olympics is infrastructure that is expected to be used beyond the games, calculating the total cost of hosting an Olympics can be a matter of perspective.

But if we look at just the sports-related costs, we can see that hosting the Rio Olympics will be much cheaper than London 2012 or Sochi 2014.

A study by Bent Flyvbjerg, Allison Stewart, and Alexander Budzier for the Saïd Business School at the University... Читать дальше...

BEIJING — A Chinese legal rights activist was sentenced to 7½ years in prison on subversion charges Wednesday, in the second in a series of cases underscoring the ruling Communist Party’s determination to rein in government critics. State broadcaster CCTV said Hu Shigen had pleaded guilty to “subversion, damaging national security and harming social stability” at the start of his hearing before the Tianjin No. 2 Intermediate People’s Court. Hu had been sentenced in 1994 to 20 years in prison on... Читать дальше...

It was business as usual for shoppers in Lenasia, with some saying they were not interested in going to the polls.

Former governor of Delta state, Felix Ibru who died on March 12,was buried today, August 3 Ibru’s corpse reportedly arrived the country this afternoon and was immediately buried at his hometown in Agbarho-Otor. The body of the late businessman was accorded a guard of honour by policemen with 10-gun salute, Punch reports. Earlier a funeral […]

President Barack Obama on Wednesday cut short the sentences of 214 federal inmates, including 67 life sentences, in what the White House called the largest batch of commutations ...